[Toybox] [PATCH 1/2] file: fix ELF note parsing.

enh enh at google.com
Thu Apr 25 10:54:37 PDT 2019


Commit 9448c33944651c1644ffbd0f52cf9d43cae19599 broke ELF note parsing,
because the bounds checking was off. Fix that but also generalize it so
that we won't need note-specific bounds checking in future.
---
 toys/posix/file.c | 11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/toys/posix/file.c b/toys/posix/file.c
index 2893e2f7..567c68d2 100644
--- a/toys/posix/file.c
+++ b/toys/posix/file.c
@@ -174,17 +174,20 @@ static void do_elf_file(int fd)
         n_type = elf_int(note+8, 4);
         notesz = 3*4 + ((n_namesz+3)&~3) + ((n_descsz+3)&~3);

+        // Does the claimed size of this note actually fit in the section?
+        if (notesz > sh_size) goto bad;
+
         if (n_namesz==4 && !memcmp(note+12, "GNU", 4)) {
           if (n_type==3 /*NT_GNU_BUILD_ID*/) {
-            if (n_descsz+16>sh_size) goto bad;
             printf(", BuildID=");
             for (j = 0; j < n_descsz; ++j) printf("%02x", note[16 + j]);
           }
         } else if (n_namesz==8 && !memcmp(note+12, "Android", 8)) {
-          if (n_type==1 /*.android.note.ident*/) {
-            if (n_descsz+24+64>sh_size) goto bad;
+          if (n_type==1 /*.android.note.ident*/ && n_descsz >= 4) {
             printf(", for Android %d", (int)elf_int(note+20, 4));
-            if (n_descsz > 24)
+            // NDK r14 and later also include NDK version info. OS binaries
+            // and binaries built by older NDKs don't have this.
+            if (n_descsz >= 4+64+64)
               printf(", built by NDK %.64s (%.64s)", note+24, note+24+64);
           }
         }
-- 
2.21.0.593.g511ec345e18-goog
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